We left Vermont this morning and drove down to JFK airport. Alex and Josh were pleased to see Manhattan for the first time and were able to pick out the Empire State building in the distance. Alex shed a few small boy tears when he left his dad, but ...

Bit of a weird day today.
I chilled out morning and breakfast at IHOP.
In the afternoon I took the ferry over to The Statue of Liberty. I didn't stay to long because you can't climb the statue any more. I then took the ferry over to Ellis island ...

... 's good to be back. Mochi, my kitty, has missed me. Thank you so much for reading my entries and I look forward to posting new adventures although that won't be for a while. Now, I have to do the hard work--editing and more fundraising. Again, thanks so ...

... etc.). Wanted to share the *ROUGH* itinerary. This is subject to (major) change. Here's the plan:
1. June 25th - Leave NYC for New Zealand/SouthPacific
2. End of June through 8/1 - short stop in NZ (1 day or so), onto Cook Islands for just shy of ...

... told AAP the nomination categories gave an indication of what mattered over the past year.
For the 2008 competition, six new categories have been included; entertainment, communications, genetics, law, tourism and ecology.
Each of the 19 categories ...

... sunshine. Time to move on again and the Greyhound is booked to take us to Upstate NewYork. Footnote: Statue Of Liberty, NewYork, UnitedStates is an official Finalist in the New Seven Wonders Of The World. The Empire State Building is one of The ...

... a dark beer that has given us all dizziness and dodgy stomachs.
Wednesday 13th August
Sore heads all around, came down to NewYorkCity Library and we are just going to get some provisions for our naturalist sorry naturist bus tour.We loved the New ...

My idea of a couple of quiet days in NewYork wasn't going completely to plan... After hearing that my ticket to Rio was now useless (see previous entry) I had to shop around on the internet and by phone until I came up with some alternatives. Luckily ...

The flight has landed. The hours of transit has come to an end - or has it? No not quite. This is JFK airport and we are entering the almighty U.S of A. Our flight was a A380 plane holding almost 400. Another flight had arrived before us ...

Testing 1..2..3...
It's a couple weeks before I leave for my trip, I'm still in NYC packing up boxes in my apartment. Over three on the left is the rough draft of the travel map I've been working on. It shows the rough outline of the trip I'm ...

... 't shifted to Business Class - instead we were seated in two different rows. And so we settled in to our 8 hour flight to NewYork. About 6 hours into the flight, the BOSS developed a fever and felt distinctly unwell. The flight attendant gave her some ...

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Ok, I guess there's a little more to NY than just the key tourist sights and on that front I've decided that this city has a very very cool atmosphere! The city is such a hive of activity that I find it hard to believe that you ...

... speaking American English on the street (and with weird accents), so weird in fact that I find myself eavesdropping in fascination. But NewYork is different than most of the cities we've been in. There are Peruvians in Lima, Indians in Delhi, ...

... we went for a Panasonic which so far has been really good. Grand Central Station was...well grand, as was the NewYorkCity Library. We decided to walk down to the Twin Towers construction site. It's strange standing there looking into a ...

... was not long home when terrorists blew up the two night clubs that I'd spent almost every night of my stay in. And now NewYorkCity... I was in the Metropolitan Museum getting chatted up by one of the security guards when the power went, it was then the ...

I can't find my baby....SCRATCH that...I can't find my luggage. Yes, I flew from NewYork to London to Delhi to Mumbai to Cochin to Singapore to Japan to Washington DC with luggage all the way. BUT, on the short 31 minute flight from DC to NY my luggage ...

... times the queues. Two policemen on duty, cleaners, but merchandise shop closed. Back in the next queue. By now, I had perfected the 'NewYork Attitude'.
I told Daisy at the window I was not queueing again for no-one once my box was labelled, and I was a ...

... gazillion plastic shopping bags we boarded the open top sightseeing bus, but as it was still raining we had to sit downstairs and view NewYork through rain drenched windows. We got caught up in the evening peak hour traffic so it was close to 7pm by the ...

Not much to report from today. I got up early said goodbye to Crystal, spent 5 hours on a bus to NewYork
I took a number of back and forth text messages to find Natalie.
That night we spent in Hoboken, chilling and having ...

... in such a short amount of time and after a while we never wanted to leave. We spent almost 7 weeks in NewYork going backs and forwards from the city to the beach.. We had such an awesome time and it was lovely to spend that much time together, Sam's mum ...

Happy New Year!! 2008!!
Got to catch the FSU bowl game and even though we lost I still say Go Noles..hell, we were down quite a few players (uh, like 30 or so) due to the cheating scandal. All I have to say to that is that I agree with Bobby ...

... piles of snow, zooming in with the camera - just so it looks like its super snowing in photos.. the excitement of my first city in the snow!
Statue of Liberty (many stairs to climb), Twin Towers, Battery Park, Fifth Avenue, Broadway, Soho, Wall ...

Do Experiences Or Material Goods Make Us Happier?
ScienceDaily (Feb. 24, 2009) - Should I spend money on a vacation or a new computer? Will an experience or an object make me happier? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says it depends on ...

Just got back to the City after a long day of travel. Headed back over the Pacific and had a layover in San Francisco, which included a layover due to bad weather in NY. Haven't been to California since a business trip brought me to this neck of the woods ...

We never did tell the story of how it came about did we??? well better late than never eh? After spending the day walking in Central Park and visiting the "Met Museum" we did the coffee thing and spent time with an old friend we waved her off and left ...

... the city seem temporarily pristine. It even brought the humor out of New Yorkers, with some random snowball fighting going on!
Leaving NewYork was a surreal and slightly sad experience, as the next stop was home. Of course, I was excited about getting ...